Jeremy Julian Sarkin (Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts)

Submitted:   Thu, 10 May 2007 11:15:51 -0400


Dr. Jeremy Julian Sarkin
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University
Medford, Massachusetts 02155-7082  USA

phone:    781 526 4585
e-mail:   Jeremy.Sarkin@tufts.edu

Web page: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/faculty/sarkin/profile.asp


Education:

LLB and BA, University of Natal
LLM, Harvard Law School
LLD, University of the Western Cape

Professional Activities:

Attorney (State of New York) Attorney (South Africa) Senior Professor of 
Law (1990 to present) and Deputy Dean (2000-2002), University of the 
Western Cape; Served as Acting Judge in the Cape High Court (2002-2003); 
National Chairperson and Board Committee member, Human Rights Committee of 
South Africa (1994-1998); Founder Member, International Human Rights 
Academy; Board Member and member of the Executive Committee, Institute for 
Justice and Reconciliation (2002 to present); Has served as a consultant 
to various institutions such as the European Union, and the Sierra Leone 
Truth and Reconciliation Commission.


Books:

    * Reparations for Colonial Genocide (forthcoming 2007);
    * Issues in African Prisons (editor) (forthcoming 2007);
    * Reconciliation in Transitional Societies (co-author) (2007);
    * Carrots and Sticks: The TRC and the South African Amnesty Process (2004);
    * The Administration of Justice: Comparative Perspectives (co-editor) (2004);
    * Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights . An Appraisal of Current International
       and European Developments (co-editor) (2002);
    * Resolving the Tensions Between Crime and Human Rights: European and South African
       Perspectives (co-author) (2002);
    * The Principle of Equality (co-editor) (2001).

Recent Articles and Chapters in Books:

    * An overview of human rights issues in African Prisons in (Jeremy 
Sarkin editor) Human Rights Issues in African Prisons (Human Sciences 
Research Council) (forthcoming 2007);

    * The historical origins, convergence and interrelationship of 
international human rights law, international humanitarian law, 
international criminal law and international law: Their application from 
at least the nineteenth Century 1(1) Human Rights and International Legal 
Discourse (2007) 125-172. ;

    * An Evaluation of the South African Amnesty Process in Audrey Chapman 
and Hugo van der Merwe (eds) Truth and Reconciliation: Did the TRC Deliver 
(University of Pennsylvania Press) (forthcoming 2007)

    * "Promoting human rights and achieving reconciliation at the 
international level," (Parts 1 & 2) (co-author) Law, Democracy and 
Development (2006)

    * "Constitutionalism in Southern Africa: A Focus on Land," African 
Constitutionalism (2006)

    * "Reparations for Gross Human Rights Violations in Africa . The Great 
Lakes," Repairing the Past: International Perspectives on Reparations for 
Gross Human Rights Abuses (2006)

    * "The Amnesty Hearing in South Africa Revisited,. Justice in 
Transition," Prosecution and Amnesty in Germany and South Africa (2006)

    * "Reparation For Gross Human Rights as an Outcome of Criminal Versus 
Civil Court Proceedings," Reparation for Victims of Gross and Systematic 
Human Rights Violations (2006)